Quotes By Barbra Streisand

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

I still like my antique clothes.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I never sing in the shower either.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I'm a work in progress.

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.